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By largest Muslim advocacy group in US. Updated on 8 April 2021 A prominent Muslim advocacy organisation has called for PlayStation, Xbox and Valve to drop controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights charity in the US, issued the call in a press release which brings the game's subject matter back into the spotlight once again. Calling the game an "Arab murder simulator", CAIR linked to Rebekah Valentine's recent article for IGN on the game, "Six Days in Fallujah Is Complica...

Now Six Days in Fallujah is back, with Highwire Games as its new developer, Victura as its new publisher, and brand-new technology and direction to try and valorize a battle that its creators feel hasn’t gotten due attention (despite numerous books, documentaries, Fox News recreations, and even an opera that all center the perspectives of U.S. Marines). Its return has not been warmly welcomed by everyone in the video game community. IGN’s Rebekah Valentine spoke with Arab and Iraqi game developers exhausted and infuriated by the game. U.S. military veterans John Phipps and Tristan Green...

Six Days in Fallujah dev: “we could’ve done a better job” explaining our goals We ask the developer and a critical peer how games can responsibly tell the true and horrific stories of modern war Earlier this week, the developer of the controversial FPS gameSix Days in Fallujah said it understands that the events it’s setting out to depict “are inseparable from politics”, and that its goal is to tell the story of the second battle of Fallujah from a variety of perspectives. This followed intense online criticism after the announcement in February that it had resumed development mo...

“The stories in Six Days in Fallujah are told through gameplay and documentary footage featuring service members and civilians with diverse experiences and opinions about the Iraq War,” a new statement begins. “So far, 26 Iraqi civilians and dozens of service members have shared the most difficult moments of their lives with us, so we can share them with you, in their words.” The statement was posted to Twitter with accompanying text that states, “We understand the events recreated in Six Days in Fallujah are inseparable from politics.” The new statement contradicts one made by...

26 Iraqi civilians and dozens of soldiers shared their insight to help make the new version of Six Days in Fallujah.